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A Call to Prayer 


by 
MRS. A. M. BACON 





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A CALL TO PRAYER 


Mrs. A. M. Bacon 


It is characteristic of Mrs. Bacon that one of 
the last things she did for the work she had 
served forty-five years was to write the following 
appeal for prayer. 

At our fortieth anniversary celebration at 
Indianapolis, we held an informal discussion on 
how to find more missionaries. “Educate our 
young women in Missions,” said one with 
eloquent appeal. Suddenly Mrs. Bacon arose in 
her place and cut the discussion short by repeat- 
ing with slow distinctness, “Pray ye therefore 
the Lord of the harvest, that he would send 
forth laborers into his harvest.” 


Prayer was to her the weapon of the church 
and so when on February 4, 1916 she passed over 
the river, she left us her mantle of prayer; ane 
greatest legacy she had to bequeath. 


—Mary E. Adkins 


a HE Prayer League Covenant. 
is What is it? Why sign it? It is 
a declaration of fealty to the 
Woman’s American Baptist Foreign 
Mission Society. Nay more, it is an 
expression of fellowship with Him in 
His redemptive work, who ever liveth 
to make intercession for us. It is simply 
_ pledging to bring blessings by intercessory 
prayer to those who are holding the 
ropes, to stimuate sacrificial giving and 


to uplift and save the darkened lives of 
Orientals. Prayer is the gateway to the 
presence chamber of the King, who is 
waiting to bestow untold blessings. By 
signing the pledge you are aligning your- 
self with the great company who 
devoutedly pray “Thy Kingdom Come. ” 


Our President, Mrs: Montgomery, 
has each signed name recorded in a 
book so that she can send special sub- 
jects for prayer. ‘This centralizes the 
work, and the whole company are drawn 
close to the leaders, from whom wireless 
_ messages may be received in the homes 
far and near. This fellowship of work 
and intercession is blessed, but let us not 
forget the four-and-twenty golden vials 
~ full of odors, which are the prayers of 
the saints, seen by the revelator. 


By this compact your prayers will 
become more definite, more intelligent, 
more earnest, more unselfish. It will 
beget habits of reading and inquiry as to 
the great and crying needs in Non- 
Christian lands. No better outlook on 
the foreign field today can be found than 


that given in “The King’s Highway.” 
You will also find “Missions” indispen- 


sable. 


Blank pledges to be signed may be 
ordered from the Home Administration 
Department of the Woman's American 
Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 450 E. 
30th Street, Chicago, Illinois. 





Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society 
Publication Dept., 450 E. 30th Street, Chicago, Il. 
5M—4-16 


